Langston Hughes

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Bill Murray leads the Poets House walk

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H. Rap Brown: "If You Can't Give a Gun, Give a Dollar"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 2, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 3 John Brown's Roll to Rap Brown's Rock by Stephanie Harrington Rap Brown talked to the honkies last Friday night. The occasion was the National Guardian's 19th anniversary (and fundraising) meeting. An ... More >>

Titus Andronicus Get That Sinking Feeling

Alvin Ailey Dancers Honor Judith Jamison, Their Queen for 20 years

'Negritude' Encore!

Revisiting a black art movement.

Class Action Listings

Clayton Riley, 1935-2008

Letters 9.04.08

Lawsuits and the Langston Hughes House

A Harlem cultural touchstone, like so many others, closes off its past

Mingus Dynasty

Another stomping, shouting jazz bassist (he's got some poetry, too) takes over the family business

The Great Debaters

Cotton Comes to Harlem

The Power and the Beauty

Dancing humanity in a fine new space

Really Black Humor

White Boy Shuffle author digs through the crates for a surprising set of yuks

Rack Focus

Life Lesson

He took a gig with Teach for America in New Orleans and ended up working for FEMA

The Bohemian Diaspora

August Wilson (1945-2005)

Capture the Flag

Corona diner re-creates the national colors in a platter

Another op’nin’, another show: Dances without story don’t cut it

Jazz Goes to College

Dismantling canons, describing contexts, the new jazz studies come of age.

Film

Ghetto Blasting

Classical Theatre of Harlem revives the acid groove of Van Peebles's '70s musical

Seeding Happiness in the Dark

Winding through love's tortuous paths with composers more than two centuries apart

Ode to a Bridge: Wordsmiths Are Inspired by a Landmark

Pablo Neruda's Odes to Nature Mislaid in Musical Translation

Only Connect

When Lowell met Mailer: Step inside a literary Friendster

Ted Joans, 1928-2003

Close-Up on Corona

Bards Not Bombs in NYC

Race Records

Survival's the Tune, and August Wilson's Plays Sing It

Defiance And The Boogie-Woogie

The State of Black Theater in New York

Close Up On: Morningside Heights

Neighborhood Bully

Tracking the Invisible Man

A Walk Through Ralph Ellison's New York

The Largesse of Zora Neale Hurston

After 50 Years in a Basement, a Buried Manuscript Resurfaces

Brothers to Another Planet

NASA Tries to Launch Space-Science Dreams

Harlem Tuner Thwarts Mob

Photo Shop

Surveying the Season's Most Extravagant Photo Books

Now Hear Disc

A Blizzard of CDs Puts Some New Spins on Show Music Style

Show Me the Money

Landlord Rep Tried to Keep Public Info Private

The Fans' Notes

Kind of Blue

Bard Wired

25 Years (and Counting) of Nuyorican Poet’s Café

The Weill Party

The 20th Century’s Most Influential Composer Turns 100

Simply Heavenly Uptown Spot Is No Flash in the Pan

The Harlem Shuffle

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

Where Kids Never Stop Learning

The Mayor Should Come to P.S. 110

Trial and Era